System and method for presenting community emotive data geographically on a social mapping network

Abstract

A system for receiving location information on a social network comprising: a computer processor; a memory; and a content engine executing on the computer processor and configured to: display a map comprising at least one location and at least one review, wherein the at least one review is associated with the at least one location and provides information about the at least one review, and wherein the at least one review is created by at least one user of the social network; and displaying the at least one review in response to an input selecting the at least one review, wherein the at least one review is displayed based on attributes associated with a display on which the at least one review is being displayed.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for receiving real-time reviews about locations via a social network comprising:
 transmitting, from a first client device, a request to a system for one or more reviews associated with a location;   providing, by the system, at least a portion of the request to a set of client devices;   receiving, by the system, a real-time review associated with the location from a second client device in response to the request, wherein:
 the review includes temporally relevant information about the location, 
 the second client device is included in the set of client devices, and 
 the review was drafted at the second client device; 
   receiving, at the first client device, the review associated with the location;   displaying, by the first client device, a map comprising a symbol representing the review associated with the location;   receiving input at the first client device selecting the symbol representing the review; and   displaying at least a portion of the review in response to the received input, wherein the displayed at least a portion of the review is displayed based on a size of the display.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the symbol representing the review is an emoji bubble. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the displayed at least a portion of the review includes an image. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the system determines that the second client device was at the location during a particular time period. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein at least one attribute of the symbol representing the received review is based on a selection made at the second client device. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, by the system, additional reviews associated with the location in response to the request;   assigning, by the system, relevance numbers corresponding to the review and the additional reviews based at least in part on a number of upvotes or downvotes for each review; and   wherein the displayed review is displayed based on a larger value of the corresponding relevance number in comparison to the other relevance numbers.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the displayed review is displayed based on a corresponding relevance number with a higher value than other reviews' relevance numbers, wherein the relevance number is based at least in part on how recently the review was created. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the location associated with the review is based on a distance between the location and the first client device. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the location associated with the review is depicted on the map by a heatmap, wherein locations with reviews that have been upvoted are represented on a the heatmap by a first color and locations with reviews that have been downvoted are represented on the heatmap by a second color. 
     
     
         10 . A system for receiving real-time reviews about locations via a social network comprising:
 a computer processor;   a memory; and   a review engine executing on the computer processor and configured to:   transmit, from a first client device, a request to a system for one or more reviews associated with a location;   provide, by the system, at least a portion of the request to a set of client devices;   receive, by the system, a real-time review associated with the location from a second client device in response to the request, wherein:
 the review includes temporally relevant information about the location, 
 the second client device is included in the set of client devices, and 
 the review was drafted at the second client device; 
   receive, at the first client device, the review associated with the location;   display, by the first client device, a map comprising a symbol representing the review associated with the location;   receive input at the first client device selecting the symbol representing the review; and   display at least a portion of the review in response to the received input, wherein the displayed at least a portion of the review is displayed based on a size of the display.   
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the symbol representing the review is an emoji bubble. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the displayed at least a portion of the review includes an image. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the review engine determines that the second client device was at the location during a particular time period. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein at least one attribute of the symbol representing the received review is based on a selection made at the second client device. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the review engine is further configured to:
 receive, by the system, additional reviews associated with the location in response to the request;   assign, by the system, relevance numbers corresponding to the review and the additional reviews based at least in part on a number of upvotes or downvotes for each review; and   wherein the displayed review is displayed based on a larger value of the corresponding relevance number in comparison to the other relevance numbers.   
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the displayed review is displayed based on a corresponding relevance number with a higher value than other reviews' relevance numbers, wherein the relevance number is based at least in part on how recently the review was created. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the location associated with the review is depicted on the map by a heatmap, wherein locations with reviews that have been upvoted are represented on a the heatmap by a first color, and locations with reviews that have been downvoted are represented on the heatmap by a second color. 
     
     
         18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions for receiving real-time reviews about locations via a social network, the instructions configured to execute on at least one computer processor to enable the computer processor to:
 transmit, from a first client device, a request to a system for one or more reviews associated with a location;   provide, by the system, at least a portion of the request to a set of client devices;   receive, by the system, a real-time review associated with the location from a second client device in response to the request, wherein:
 the review includes temporally relevant information about the location, 
 the second client device is included in the set of client devices, and 
 the review was drafted at the second client device; 
   receive, at the first client device, the review associated with the location;   display, by the first client device, a map comprising a symbol representing the review associated with the location;   receive input at the first client device selecting the symbol representing the review; and   display at least a portion of the review in response to the received input, wherein the displayed at least a portion of the review is displayed based on a size of the display.   
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 18 , wherein the location associated with the review is based on a distance between the location and the first client device. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 19 , wherein the location associated with the review is depicted on the map by a heatmap, wherein locations with reviews that have been upvoted are represented on a the heatmap by a first color and locations with reviews that have been downvoted are represented on the heatmap by a second color.